The croc hit the ground snout first missing all three targets. Sobek held out his hands and a black staff materialized out of thin air. He jumped from his croc and began his assault on Sozin.
Sozin countered a strike meant for his face. His hand quickly charged up with electricity and he punched Sobek in the chest. The electricity was soon replaced by fire as he back-handed him.
"I got this clown take out the walking jumbo can!" Sozin told them.
The croc let out an ear-splitting roar that knocked both Sakura and Naruto off their feet. It followed up with another attempt to smashed them into the ground, which they easily dodged again.
Sobek's assaults became faster with each move Sozin blocked, but his sharingan kept him from getting the upper-hand. Sobek jumped into the and threw the staff at Sozin, who merely stepped to the side to avoid it. Sobek then closed his hand into a fist, and the staff exploded, knocking Sozin into the air. Sobek summoned another staff and resumed his assault. A brief flash of a silhouette and Sobek hit the floor. He quickly got up and looked wildly around for his assailant. Standing before him was a dark-skinned man with dark, icy-blue eyes. He wore black pants, and armor everywhere else except for his face. He had two swords on his back: a katana and a sabre.
"You..." Sobek growled.
"Awww, you sound disappointed." Nori said sternly.
"Wretched mongrel! I shall enjoy sending you to the nether!" Sobek yelled charging.
"That's not very nice." Nori said unsheathing the sabre. There were runic symbols carved into the blade that lit up with light blue energy and created a crackling aura around the blade.
Nori swung his sword and shattered Sobek's staff and followed up with a swift kick to his face. Sobek quickly recovered held out his hands again. This time a shield and broadsword materialized as he got into a defensive stance.
"Sozin, help the other two ninja with that beast. I got this one." Nori said.
Sozin nodded and dashed off to help Naruto and Sakura, who weren't making good progress. Naruto's rasengan did nothing against the crocodile's armor and Sakura couldn't get close enough to hit it without being knocked back by a flailing leg or tail. A massive amount of electical energy formed around Sozin's arms. He put his hands together and thrust them out. A bolt of lightning leaped from his hands and struck the crocodile's neck, increasing the damage from the conductivity of its armor.
"Now!" Sozin yelled.
Sakura quickly ran up to the paralyzed beast and delivered a punishing blow to the top of its head, shattering the armor that protected it. The beast crumpled to the ground and vanished in a poof of black smoke.
Sobek swung and missed. He attempted to follow up with an elbow to the face but Nori grabbed his arm and launched him straight into the air. In a split second he jumped up into the air with him, grabbed his leg, and threw him back to the ground. As Sobek quickly got back up, the ground beneath him was suddenly covered in runes. The runes lit up and eight tranparent tentacles shot out and impaled him.
"Argh! Can't...move..." Sobek said weakly.
"That's the idea. Those tentacles almost immediately suck out your energy and cut off whatever abilities you might have. Think of them as neutralizers; I didn't want to kill you too quickly." Nori said putting away his weapon.
"Nori!" Sam yelled running up with the rest of his squad and the ninja from Konoha.
"Whoa...you captured him already?" Soki said in disbelief.
"So this is Nori.." Neji thought activating his byakugan, "His chakra...he has more than one chakra system...what the hell is he?"
"It wasn't hard if that's what you're asking." Nori said folding his arms.
"Either way, good work. Now we have someone to question about all of this." Sam said happily.
The ground in front of Sobek suddenly oppened up. A man wearing rusted, black armor with a helmet that resembled the head of a jackal rose from it and quickly grabbed Sobek. As he did the tentacles suddenly died and he dragged Sobek into the ground.
"Whoa! What the hell was that?" Soki said aiming her rifle where the hole used to be.
"Anubis...dammit." Nori said angrily.
"Anubis?" Tsunade asked.
"I've been running into them lately. They call themselves 'Children of Amun', and take their names and powers from the deities of another religion. Unfortunately they're connected to some of the things that have been going on out here." Nori said.
"How's that unfortunate?" Naruto asked.
"Because that's two more people that need to be chased down. Scientist with little gadgets and mutants are annoying enough. These guys are on a whole different level; way more dangerous than any scientist we've encountered." Nori answered.
"But how was that guy, Anubis, able to take Sobek without losing his chakra to those tentacles.?" Kakashi asked.
"I've only seen him twice and fought him once. Whatever he touches just dies; that goes for energy too. It's like he has a small aura of death or something surrounding him at all times."
"If that's so then how did you survive a fight against him."
"It's a very strong aura that surrounds him. With enough power that aura just weakens you blow instead of just outright destroying it. Along with that he's not a very good hand to hand fighter; he relies on that aura too much."
"There's more to it than that if you haven't taken him out yet."
"You're a smart one aren't you?" Nori said looking at Kakashi, "I guess I should expect nothing less from Kakashi of the Sharingan. But you're right, there is more to it. Last time we fought, and I gained the upper hand he summoned a small army of undead to keep me busy while he ran off. He's more like a necromancer than a god."